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- Ryanair forces South Africans to do Afrikaans test to prove nationality
- Home Office offers asylum seekers choice between war zones they fled and Rwanda
- Nigeria: gunmen kill dozens in ‘satanic’ attack on Catholic church
- Fears for safety of British journalist missing in Brazilian Amazon
- Ukraine war deepens China’s mistrust of the west
- PM calls Putin’s actions ‘abhorrent’ after confirming he’ll attend G20 – as it happened
- South Korea and US fire eight missiles into sea in show of force to North Korea
- ‘Pivotal’ Māori leader Tipene O’Regan made member of Order of New Zealand
- Anthony Albanese vows to strengthen Australia’s ties on official Indonesia visit
- Anthony Albanese tells Joko Widodo he will go to the G20 in Indonesia despite Russia’s attendance
- Island in the energy price storm: renewables help ACT cut power costs
- Defamation trial hears ‘malicious’ text message Pauline Hanson sent former senator’s wife
- Subsidiary of Russian company sues Rio Tinto for cutting it out of Queensland alumina operation
- Interest rates: RBA weighs up risk of ‘climb shock’ ahead of decision
- The Coalition didn’t do much on nuclear energy while in office. Why are they talking about it now?
- Russia-Ukraine war: Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk are ‘dead cities’, says Zelenskiy, but says Ukraine can fight back – live
- European unity on Ukraine growing more difficult, says Estonian PM
- Paris protesters celebrate saving trees around the Eiffel Tower
- France puts 18 on trial over alleged involvement in vast horsemeat scandal
- Zelenskiy visits Ukrainian troops on frontline as Russia pushes them back
- Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 103 of the invasion
- British geologist jailed for 15 years in Iraq for smuggling artefacts
- Prophet Muhammad remarks embroil India in row with Gulf states
- Kazakhs vote to strip founding figure Nazarbayev of privileges in referendum
- Boris Johnson no-confidence vote: prime minister addresses Tory MPs ahead of crucial ballot – live
- Inquiry opens into alleged patient abuse at Muckamore Abbey
- UK records 77 more cases of monkeypox, taking total to 302
- Flight cancellations and London tube strike hamper Britons’ return to work
- Archive film shows Belfast kids going wild to Hippy Hippy Shake in 1964
- Platinum jubilee: one in four Britons joined community events, poll shows
- Texas A&M University refutes claim Rittenhouse will be attending school
- Studio behind Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick sued over copyright
- Bipartisan US lawmakers ramp up gun control talks amid crisis of violence – live
- Nearly half of Republicans think US has to live with mass shootings, poll finds
- Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools
- DeSantis beats Trump in conservative group straw poll for 2024 nomination
| Ryanair forces South Africans to do Afrikaans test to prove nationality Posted: 06 Jun 2022 02:29 AM PDT Airline accused of discrimination after it introduces test due to 'high prevalence of fraudulent passports' Ryanair is facing accusations of racial discrimination after forcing South Africans to take a test in Afrikaans before boarding flights home from the UK and Europe. The budget airline, which claimed the "simple questionnaire" was part of efforts to tackle fraudulent South African passport holders, is facing criticism for conducting the general knowledge test in a language that is the third most used in the country and had a controversial role in the oppression of black citizens during apartheid. Continue reading... |
| Home Office offers asylum seekers choice between war zones they fled and Rwanda Posted: 05 Jun 2022 11:00 PM PDT High number of first 100 people to be sent to Rwanda are from Sudan, despite being small number of those crossing the Channel The Home Office is offering to fly asylum seekers back to the conflict zones they escaped from if they do not wish to be sent to Rwanda, the Guardian has learned. Documents issued to the first group of asylum seekers facing removal to the east African country state that the Home Office voluntary returns service can help them go back to their home country. Continue reading... |
| Nigeria: gunmen kill dozens in ‘satanic’ attack on Catholic church Posted: 05 Jun 2022 10:12 AM PDT At least 50 people killed and dozens more injured in assault during Sunday mass in Ondo state Gunmen launched an assault on a Catholic church in Ondo state in Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing more than 50 people in a "satanic attack", local officials and volunteers said. The attackers targeted the St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in the town of Owo as the worshippers gathered on Pentecost Sunday, according to local officials. They gunned down parishioners and detonated an explosive device, local media reported. Continue reading... |
| Fears for safety of British journalist missing in Brazilian Amazon Posted: 06 Jun 2022 08:06 AM PDT Dom Phillips disappeared on a trip to one of the remotest corners of the Amazon days after receiving threats Fears are growing over the safety of a British journalist and a Brazilian Indigenous expert who have disappeared in one of the remotest corners of the Amazon just days after receiving threats. Dom Phillips, a longtime contributor to the Guardian in Brazil, was last seen over the weekend in the Javari region of Amazonas state – a vast region of rivers and rainforests near the border with Peru. Continue reading... |
| Ukraine war deepens China’s mistrust of the west Posted: 06 Jun 2022 02:13 AM PDT Analysis: the conflict in Europe has entrenched the differences between Beijing and the US and its allies More than 100 days into Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's strategic assessment of the conflict is becoming clearer: it does not wish to be cast in the same light as Russia, but the war has deepened Beijing's mistrust of the west. In Beijing's view, the pessimism has been exacerbated by the US and its allies' recent efforts, for example, to help Taiwan increase its international recognition. On Monday last week, Beijing made the second-largest incursion into Taiwan's air defence zone this year with Taipei reporting 30 jets entering the area, including more than 20 fighters. Continue reading... |
| PM calls Putin’s actions ‘abhorrent’ after confirming he’ll attend G20 – as it happened Posted: 06 Jun 2022 01:26 AM PDT Prime minister speaks in Jakarta after sharing bike ride with Indonesian president; Richard Marles says finding successor to Collins-class submarines is 'No 1' defence priority; Australia records at least 19 Covid deaths. This blog is now closed.
Similarly, on the Indigenous voice to parliament, Dutton said the Coalition is "very open to the discussion and what the government has to say". In principle, do we support anything that's going to improve the situation of Indigenous Australians? Absolutely. In Ted O'Brien we have someone with an exceptional background, a very considered person, a great communicator. And he did a report ... when he was on the backbench in the last parliament on nuclear energy. He had a particular focus on the latest generation, the small modular nuclear generation which can power up to 100,000 houses. So I'm not afraid to have a discussion on nuclear. If we want to have a legitimate emissions reduction, if we want to lower emissions reduction, that's exactly the path president Macron has embarked on in France, it's what prime minister Johnson is talking about in the United Kingdom ... I don't think we should be afraid to talk about any technology that's going to have the ability to reduce emissions and electricity prices. That's something we can consider in time. I don't think we should rule things out simply because it's unfashionable to talk about them. Continue reading... |
| South Korea and US fire eight missiles into sea in show of force to North Korea Posted: 05 Jun 2022 07:16 PM PDT Monday morning launches demonstrate 'capability and readiness to carry out precision strikes' on regime, a day after it carried out its own launches South Korea and the US have fired eight surface-to-surface missiles into the sea in response to North Korea's launch of a similar number of ballistic missiles the previous day, a South Korea defence ministry official said. South Korea said Monday's tit-for-tat launch off its east coast was a demonstration of Seoul's "capability and readiness to carry out precision strikes" against the source of North Korea's missile launches or the command and support centres, the Yonhap news agency cited the South Korean military as saying. Continue reading... |
| ‘Pivotal’ Māori leader Tipene O’Regan made member of Order of New Zealand Posted: 05 Jun 2022 06:52 PM PDT Champion of Māori rights honoured by Queen for life of work dedicated to improving 'economic, cultural and social standing of Māori communities' A Māori leader, educator and historian who has dedicated his life to the betterment of Māori and was instrumental in developing Māori fishing interests has been awarded New Zealand's highest honour. Tā (Sir) Tipene O'Regan, 83, has been made a member of the Order of New Zealand as part of the Queen's birthday honours list. O'Regan was awarded the distinction alongside Dame Silvia Cartwright, a former governor general and the first woman in New Zealand to become a high court judge. Continue reading... |
| Anthony Albanese vows to strengthen Australia’s ties on official Indonesia visit Posted: 05 Jun 2022 02:32 PM PDT PM accompanied by senior ministers and business leaders as Labor's regional diplomatic offensive continues amid growing China assertiveness
Anthony Albanese has declared he wants to strengthen the Australia-Indonesia relationship while deepening ties with south-east Asian nations amid escalating tensions prompted by China's growing assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific. Australia's prime minister touched down in Jakarta on Sunday night accompanied by senior ministers and a high-powered business delegation to pursue a two-day diplomatic full court press in Indonesia. Continue reading... |
| Anthony Albanese tells Joko Widodo he will go to the G20 in Indonesia despite Russia’s attendance Posted: 06 Jun 2022 01:34 AM PDT Visiting Indonesia, Australian prime minister says he's focused on supporting Indonesian president, not on Vladimir Putin and his 'abhorrent' actions
Anthony Albanese has confirmed Australia will attend the G20 meeting in Bali in November despite Russia's controversial attendance at the summit, with the prime minister also pledging to assist Indonesia as host of the leaders meeting. With some world leaders signalling they may not attend the event if Russia comes, Indonesia as the summit host has arranged for the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to make a virtual appearance. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Island in the energy price storm: renewables help ACT cut power costs Posted: 06 Jun 2022 01:07 AM PDT ACT is the only jurisdiction bucking the trend of soaring power bills now plaguing the rest of Australia The ACT will cut electricity prices this year, bucking a trend of soaring power bills for the rest of Australia, as the territory benefits from long-term contracts that locked in low-cost renewable energy. Basic tariffs will fall by a minimum of at least 1.25% from 1 July, the ACT's independent competition and regulatory commission said on Monday. "This is equivalent to a real decrease of 4.93% after excluding inflation," it said. Continue reading... |
| Defamation trial hears ‘malicious’ text message Pauline Hanson sent former senator’s wife Posted: 06 Jun 2022 12:56 AM PDT Brian Burston, who represented One Nation from 2016 to 2018, is suing his former leader for what he says were accusations of sexual harassment against him Pauline Hanson sent a "spiteful" and "malicious" text message to the wife of former One Nation senator Brian Burston claiming that he considered her to be an "old bag" and was "infatuated" with one of his staff members, a court has heard. A defamation trial brought by Burston against Hanson began in the federal court on Monday over a series of what he argues are allegations of sexual harassment made against him on social media, in interviews and in a text to his wife, Rosalyn. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning |
| Subsidiary of Russian company sues Rio Tinto for cutting it out of Queensland alumina operation Posted: 05 Jun 2022 11:51 PM PDT Australia's sanctions on oligarch Oleg Deripaska led to Rio Tinto taking responsibility for Gladstone refinery from Rusal subsidiary
A subsidiary of Russian aluminium giant Rusal is suing Rio Tinto for freezing it out of a Queensland alumina operation due to Australian sanctions, saying it had deliberately "ringfenced" its business to avoid any benefit from flowing to targeted oligarch Oleg Deripaska. In March, the Australian government announced it would impose sanctions on Deripaska, a Russian metals magnate, due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Interest rates: RBA weighs up risk of ‘climb shock’ ahead of decision Posted: 05 Jun 2022 11:42 PM PDT Economists split on how much Reserve Bank will lift cash rate on Tuesday as it looks to rein in inflation
The Reserve Bank faces a delicate task of raising its key interest rate fast enough to quell inflation, but without causing so much "climb shock" to household budgets that the economy stalls, economists say. The central bank board meets on Tuesday with economists almost evenly split between tipping the cash rate will be lifted either by 25 basis points to 0.6%, or 40 basis to 0.75%, according to Bloomberg. Any rate rise would be the RBA's first back-to-back monthly increase in 12 years and possibly the biggest jump since a 50 basis point hike in February 2000. Continue reading... |
| The Coalition didn’t do much on nuclear energy while in office. Why are they talking about it now? Posted: 05 Jun 2022 11:07 PM PDT There is a long history of nuclear energy being used as a delaying tactic for acting on climate change in Australia
Last week, the Nationals' new leader, David Littleproud, said it was time for Australia to have a "mature" conversation about nuclear energy while his predecessor, Barnaby Joyce, called for a national moratorium to be lifted and argued nuclear power would be "really important" if the country was serious about reaching net zero emissions. On Sunday, the nuclear power advocate Ted O'Brien was appointed as the Coalition's climate change and energy spokesperson. In an interview with ABC Radio National, the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, said he was "not afraid to have a discussion on nuclear" as the country should not be afraid to "talk about any technology that's going to have the ability to reduce emissions and electricity prices". Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:12 AM PDT Ukraine's president says Russian forces have numerical advantage in eastern city of Sievierodonetsk but insists Ukraine can rally
Russian forces continue to storm the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and fired missiles at the nearby cities of Sloviansk, Lysychansk and Orikhove, Ukraine's military has said. Russian troops fired at Ukrainian units defending Sievierodonetsk with mortars and artillery fire, damaging infrastructure in the towns of Metolkino, Borivske, Ustynivka and Toshkivka, according to the latest operational report released by Ukraine's general staff of the armed forces. Continue reading... |
| European unity on Ukraine growing more difficult, says Estonian PM Posted: 06 Jun 2022 05:37 AM PDT Kaja Kallas warns pain of sanctions will test relations, and also criticises Macron's stance on Putin European unity over the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine is proving difficult to maintain in the face of the war's impact on inflation and living standards across the continent, Estonia's prime minister has said. Kaja Kallas also criticised the French president, Emmanuel Macron, for trying to provide Vladimir Putin with a diplomatic way out of the conflict, saying the only effect was to give the Russian leader the belief that he will not be isolated or face justice for his army's war crimes. Continue reading... |
| Paris protesters celebrate saving trees around the Eiffel Tower Posted: 06 Jun 2022 05:35 AM PDT City abandons €72m scheme to develop area and create huge garden in time for 2024 Olympics Protesters in Paris are celebrating having saved more than 40 trees – one of them over 200 years old – from being chopped down or threatened with damage around the Eiffel Tower as part of a €72m scheme to create a huge garden. Paris's city hall has been forced to row back on plans to clear the area around the structure on the Champ-de-Mars to improve access to the tower and make the traffic-clogged area greener in time for the 2024 Paris Olympics. Continue reading... |
| France puts 18 on trial over alleged involvement in vast horsemeat scandal Posted: 06 Jun 2022 04:41 AM PDT Defendants are accused of participation in supply of horsemeat unfit for human consumption across Europe When Aline Oudin was forced to find a new home for her beloved 28-year-old chestnut horse Ténor du Pluvinage, she placed an advert asking if anyone could offer him a new field to see out his final days. A man in his 60s responded saying he was looking for a calm companion for the young mare he had bought his daughter, so Oudin let him take the horse away with the promise she could visit him regularly. Continue reading... |
| Zelenskiy visits Ukrainian troops on frontline as Russia pushes them back Posted: 06 Jun 2022 01:38 AM PDT President makes rare publicised visit outside Kyiv to Lysychansk
The Ukrainian president has visited the frontline close to the fiercest fighting between his country's troops and Russian forces in the east, where a regional official said the situation had worsened for Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the beleaguered city of Lysychansk on Sunday, just a few kilometres south from Sievierodonetsk, the main battlefield in the east where Russia has concentrated its forces. Continue reading... |
| Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 103 of the invasion Posted: 05 Jun 2022 05:40 PM PDT Putin warns that Moscow will hit new targets if west supplies Ukraine with long-range missiles as Kyiv reels from first attack in more than a month President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited his troops on Ukraine's eastern frontlines on Sunday to understand the position of Ukrainian defenders as Russia's assault on Donbas continues. According to a release from his office, Zelenskiy visited command posts and frontline positions of Ukrainian troops in the area of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region and Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, just a few kilometres south from Sievierodonetsk, where Ukraine claims to be fighting back in one of the war's biggest ground battles. Russian forces continue to storm the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk and fired missiles at the nearby cities of Sloviansk, Lysychansk and Orikhove, Ukraine's military has said. Russian troops fired at Ukrainian units defending Sievierodonetsk with mortars and artillery fire, damaging infrastructure in the towns of Metolkino, Borivske, Ustynivka and Toshkivka. Serhiy Haidai, Ukraine's governor of Luhansk, has reported today that the situation has worsened a little for Ukraine in Sievierodonetsk and that there is intense street fighting. He told national television "Our defenders managed to undertake a counterattack for a certain time; they liberated almost half of the city. But now the situation has worsened a little for us again." Haidai also said that "the number of shellings in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk increased tenfold. In the Luhansk region there are many cities with a situation comparable to Mariupol: Now the Russians are levelling Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk." Ukraine has concentrated enough forces to repel Russian attacks in Sievierodonetsk but neither side is preparing to withdraw, according to the city's mayor, Oleksandr Stryuk. A total of 262 children have been killed and 467 injured since Russia invaded Ukraine, according to newly released figures from Ukraine's prosecutor general's office. Zelenskiy, said there could be as much as 75 million tonnes of grain stuck in Ukraine by this autumn, and that Kyiv wanted anti-ship weapons that could secure the safe passage of its exports. Ukraine's foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has urged countries not to trust Vladimir Putin's promises not to use trade routes to attack the southern port city of Odesa. Oleksandr Senkevych, mayor of Mykolaiv, has reported on Telegram that there have been explosions in the city. The headquarters of the territorial defence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic has posted to Telegram to say that one person has been killed and five people have been injured in the last 24 hours by Ukrainian shelling into the occupied territory of Donetsk. The Russian missile attack on Kyiv early on Sunday was likely an attempt to disrupt the supply of western military equipment to frontline Ukrainian units, according to British intelligence. Britain is to supply long-range rocket artillery to Ukraine, despite a threat on Sunday from Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, to bomb fresh targets if similar weapons from the US were delivered to Kyiv. The UK will send a handful of tracked M270 multiple launch rocket systems, which can hit targets up to 50 miles away, in the hope they can disrupt the concentrated Russian artillery that has been pounding cities in eastern Ukraine. Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said Moscow would respond to western deliveries of long-range weapons to Ukraine by pushing back Kyiv's forces further from Russia's borders. Continue reading... |
| British geologist jailed for 15 years in Iraq for smuggling artefacts Posted: 06 Jun 2022 07:01 AM PDT Verdict in case of Jim Fitton, 66, shocks court in Baghdad after family argued he had no criminal intent A British citizen has been sentenced by an Iraqi court to 15 years in prison on charges of smuggling artefacts out of the country in a ruling described as "tantamount to a death sentence" by his family. The verdict handed down to Jim Fitton, a retired geologist, shocked the court in Baghdad, including his defence lawyer, who had argued that the 66-year-old had no criminal intent. Continue reading... |
| Prophet Muhammad remarks embroil India in row with Gulf states Posted: 06 Jun 2022 02:00 AM PDT 'Insulting' comments by spokespeople for ruling Bharatiya Janata party met with anger in Middle East The Indian government has become embroiled in a diplomatic row with Gulf states after two ruling party spokespeople were accused of making Islamophobic and derogatory comments insulting the prophet Muhammad. The ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) suspended its national spokesperson, Nupur Sharma, and expelled its Delhi media head, Naveen Kumar Jindal, after their comments went viral in the Middle East, where they were met with a chorus of diplomatic anger. Continue reading... |
| Kazakhs vote to strip founding figure Nazarbayev of privileges in referendum Posted: 05 Jun 2022 10:46 PM PDT Preliminary results show 77% of voters backed constitutional changes after January protests in which more than 230 people died Kazakhs have overwhelmingly voted for constitutional changes in a referendum after deadly unrest ended founding leader Nursultan Nazarbayev's three-decade grip on Central Asia's richest country, the election commission says. "The referendum can be considered validated," electoral commission chair Nurlan Abdirov said on Monday, citing preliminary results that 77% of voters had backed the move. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson no-confidence vote: prime minister addresses Tory MPs ahead of crucial ballot – live Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:34 AM PDT PM speaks to Conservative MPs behind closed doors before vote between 6pm and 8pm on whether he should remain as leader
This is from my colleague Aubrey Allegretti explaining how the no-confidence vote in Boris Johnson will be carried out. Boris Johnson welcomes the chance to make his case to MPs, Downing Street claims. In a statement a No 10 spokesperson said: Tonight is a chance to end months of speculation and allow the government to draw a line and move on, delivering on the people's priorities. The PM welcomes the opportunity to make his case to MPs and will remind them that when they're united and focused on the issues that matter to voters there is no more formidable political force. Continue reading... |
| Inquiry opens into alleged patient abuse at Muckamore Abbey Posted: 06 Jun 2022 08:08 AM PDT More than 70 staff suspended and 34 arrested at psychiatric hospital in County Antrim since allegations came to light A public inquiry has opened into allegations of extensive and repeated abuse of patients at Muckamore Abbey, a hospital for vulnerable adults in Northern Ireland. The inquiry's chair, Tom Kark, said at the first hearing on Monday that the allegations of abuse and neglect at the psychiatric facility outside Belfast, in County Antrim, brought the medical, nursing and care professions into disrepute. Continue reading... |
| UK records 77 more cases of monkeypox, taking total to 302 Posted: 06 Jun 2022 07:49 AM PDT Contacts of confirmed or suspected cases who develop rash with blisters asked to contact sexual health clinic The current outbreak of monkeypox in the UK has topped 300 cases, official figures reveal, as contacts who have a rash with blisters are asked to contact a sexual health clinic. According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), 77 more cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the UK, 73 of which are in England and two each in Scotland and Wales. The figures bring the total identified in the UK, as of 5 June, to 302, with 287 in England, 10 in Scotland, two in Northern Ireland and three in Wales. Continue reading... |
| Flight cancellations and London tube strike hamper Britons’ return to work Posted: 06 Jun 2022 07:03 AM PDT EasyJet axes a further 37 services as most underground stations in centre of capital are closed Transport troubles have hampered the return to work for many after the jubilee weekend, with more flight cancellations and a tube strike causing widespread disruption. EasyJet cancelled a further 37 flights on Monday, as the staffing issues that have plagued the airline over half-term continued. Thousands more passengers had their travel plans upturned, after more than 80 flight cancellations by the airline on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| Archive film shows Belfast kids going wild to Hippy Hippy Shake in 1964 Posted: 06 Jun 2022 06:49 AM PDT Recently rediscovered BBC footage of an exuberant Sunday afternoon disco in Ardoyne has gone viral In 1964 it was the moment the children of Holy Cross parish in north Belfast waited for all week: at 3pm on Sunday their school held a disco. For the price of a few pence they would pack the hall, the music would start and for the next few hours their world was a sublime realm of dance, joy and rock'n'roll, especially when the Hippy Hippy Shake played. Continue reading... |
| Platinum jubilee: one in four Britons joined community events, poll shows Posted: 06 Jun 2022 06:24 AM PDT Surge in shopper footfall over four-day bank holiday also gives UK high streets a much-needed lift Almost 17 million people took part in community celebrations during the platinum jubilee weekend, according to one poll, as the Queen highlighted the "sense of togetherness" in her thank you message to the country. The four-day bank holiday also gave UK high streets a much-needed lift as shopper footfall surged. Continue reading... |
| Texas A&M University refutes claim Rittenhouse will be attending school Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:31 AM PDT Rittenhouse, who was found not guilty after fatally shooting two and injuring one in Kenosha unrest, made claim on Friday Kyle Rittenhouse – who last year was acquitted of a deadly triple shooting during racial justice protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020 – will not be attending Texas A&M University, according to school officials, despite a public announcement from him about his enrollment. During an appearance Friday on a conservative radio show, Rittenhouse said he would be attending Texas A&M University after touring the campus last month and it would be "awesome". Continue reading... |
| Studio behind Tom Cruise blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick sued over copyright Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:30 AM PDT Family of Ehud Yonay, author of source material for the 1986 blockbuster starring Tom Cruise, launch legal action against hit sequel The family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie Top Gun on Monday sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over this year's blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick. According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court, the Paramount Global unit failed to reacquire the rights to Ehud Yonay's 1983 article "Top Guns", which appeared in a 1983 issue of California magazine, from his family before releasing the "derivative" sequel. Continue reading... |
| Bipartisan US lawmakers ramp up gun control talks amid crisis of violence – live Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:28 AM PDT
The Wall Street Journal has published a deep dive into the relationship between Chris Murphy and John Cornyn, the two senators tasked with finding a compromise on gun control in Congress, which focuses on their experiences with mass shootings in their states. The experience of Murphy, a Democrat, stems from the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting which, like last month's massacre in Uvalde, Texas, left dead scores of children in class. Republican Cornyn's experience came in 2017 during a shooting at a Sutherland Springs, Texas church that killed 26 people, and again with the killings in Uvalde. "Both of us have gone through things and seen things that are pretty, pretty horrific," said Mr. Murphy in an interview, pointing to the shootings in their states. "I don't think there's any way that that doesn't propel you in some way, shape or form to go out, do something, to make sure that all of this stops." The two men, coming from parties with sharply different positions on the gun debate, are working to overcome decades of distrust and inaction on guns in a deeply polarized Congress, aiming to pull together an agreement as soon as this week. Many Democrats, worn down after repeated failures to advance new laws, have said they are willing to settle for even a small bipartisan deal. Some Republicans also are open to talks, emphasizing school security and mental illness but wary of any steps that could be cast as hurting gun rights. Continue reading... |
| Nearly half of Republicans think US has to live with mass shootings, poll finds Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:17 AM PDT CBS and YouGov poll returned familiar results, including 62% support for a nationwide ban on semi-automatic rifles Nearly half of Republican voters think the US just has to live with mass shootings, according to a poll released in the aftermath of the Texas elementary school murders last month and as politicians in Washington negotiate for gun reform. The CBS and YouGov poll returned familiar results, including 62% support for a nationwide ban on semi-automatic rifles, the kind of gun used in Uvalde, Texas. Continue reading... |
| Taser abandons plans to build stun gun-equipped drones for schools Posted: 06 Jun 2022 09:15 AM PDT Flying stun gun plan in response to US school shootings was expression of potential, not launch timetable, says CEO Axon, the company formerly known as Taser, has abandoned plans to build a stun gun-equipped drone intended for deployment in schools after an "exodus" of resignations from its internal ethics board. The company's chief executive, Rick Smith, said in a statement: "I want to be explicit: I announced a potential delivery date a few years out as an expression of what could be possible; it is not an actual launch timeline, especially as we are pausing that program. A remotely operated non-lethal Taser-enabled drone in schools is an idea, not a product, and it's a long way off. We have a lot of work and exploring to see if this technology is even viable and to understand if the public concerns can be adequately addressed before moving forward." Continue reading... |
| DeSantis beats Trump in conservative group straw poll for 2024 nomination Posted: 06 Jun 2022 07:34 AM PDT Denver poll indicates Trump is losing grip on Republican party as DeSantis wins 71% of the vote to Trump's 67% Conservative activists in Colorado have again placed Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis, a rising star in Republican circles, above former president Donald Trump in their preference for their party's 2024 presidential nomination. DeSantis won 71% of the vote to the former president's 67% in the straw poll, which was taken during the weekend's Western Conservative Summit in Denver and means little in itself. Participants are allowed to offer multiple responses. Continue reading... |
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